Currency Exchange

Who makes the registration?

Czech National Bank

Who needs to be registered?

All those who provide currency exchange services. Either a chain of currency exchange offices or an individual or hotel currency exchange office. Currency exchange activity can be defined as the exchange of one fiat currency for another currency at an exchange rate offered in advance. As far as currency exchange activity is concerned, the object of exchange is invariably hard currency, meaning actual money (cash). Exchange activity is governed by the Act No 277/2013 Sb. on Currency Exchange. When a transaction involves non-cash exchange, it is a matter of non-cash exchange. In such case, however, this is not exchange activity, but the payment service of a non-cash foreign currency transaction according to Section 3(1)(f) of the Act on Payment Services. Such activity requires a small-scale payment service provider licence.

What will we do for you?

• we will assign a personal project manager to you, who will attend to you and guide you through the whole registration process
• we will compile an application for the registration of exchange activity and all its attachments
• we will create complete internal regulations and procedures
• we will help in processing a list of currency exchange rates and the associated duty to inform
• we will compile measures to combat money-laundering (AML/CFT)
• once you have your registration, we will be ready to regularly help you with regulation or deal with the Czech National Bank and other regulatory bodies
• it takes around 14 days to compile all the documents required